Queensland, Australia News

A paedophile who took photos of his children's friends as they played together looks set to be returned to New Zealand from Australia.

OLD boy is in a critical condition after falling 10 metres from a ferris wheel at a school fete in southern Queensland.

Daft Punk performs on stage at the City Botanic Gardens on December 20, 2007 in Brisbane, Australia.

University of New England professor Abbas Valadkhani says his research ould help the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission prove we are being exploited at the bowser.

PETER LLOYD: A three-year legal battle between a fly-in, fly-out sex worker and a Central Queensland motel appears to have come to an end.

HEADING NORTH: Alan Jackson will play his only regional show in Townsville after the city secured the CMC Rocks North Queensland event ONE of the world's most successful country singers is headed to the North in a major coup for the city's entertainment scene.

Farming lobby group AgForce says the construction of new passing loops for trains on the Toowoomba range on Queensland's Darling Downs will take more prime movers off the Warrego Highway.

Illegal firearms surrendered during the gun amnesty being destroyed by Senior Constable Tony Fishburn, at Loganholme Police Station.

AUSTRALIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER BOB CARR has used his special powers to cancel the 457 visa issued by the Gillard government to an alleged crime boss wanted in Papua New Guinea over the theft of $30 million.

Two new rail passing loops on the Toowoomba range will double the capacity of agricultural freight from southern and western Queensland.

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Thuringowa MP Sam Cox has spoken to the Attorney-General's office about how a man charged with the attempted rape of a four-year-old-child in Townsville in north Queensland was released on bail.

The Newman-led Queensland Government was reported to be seriously considering imposing a flood levy in next month's budget, which highly baffled the Australian federal government.

A hunting shop in Queensland has received over 200,000 responses to a social media post in relation to an alleged case of animal cruelty.

The federal government has been accused of sneaking mandatory web filtering through the back door after one of its agencies inadvertently blocked 1200 websites using a little-known law.

We are a collaboration between University of Queensland, Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology and Queensland Government's Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.

Ray Hopper, State Leader for Katter's Australian Party flanked by Mt Isa MP Robbie Katter and Dalrymple MP Shane Knuth, announces the party's full shadow cabinet on the stairs of the Queensland Parliamentary Annexe earlier this year.

Police on Queensland's Sunshine Coast say they expect to lay more charges after a raid on the local Rebels Motorcycle Club.

EMILY BOURKE: Queensland authorities have launched four separate inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the death of an unborn baby after the mother was turned away from a regional hospital.

Graham Gene Potter, 55, has been on the run since he failed to appear on bail for conspiracy to murder charges at Melbourne Magistrates' Court in February 2010.